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The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets by Schmidt, Michael
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780375411205
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375411208
ISBN-13
9780375411205
eBay Product ID (ePID)
31001559
Product Key Features
Book Title
First Poets : Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
General, Literary, Poetry
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-048840
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Exhilarating. . . . It's hard to be temperate about Michael Schmidt's loving, informed and deeply engaging survey. . . . It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to its subject." The Washington Post "Exhilarating . . . a learned feast. . . . Schmidt knows and loves poetry and has a marvelous feel for it." Newsday
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
881/.0109 B
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Preface Introduction I. Orpheus of Thrace II. The Legend Poets III. Homer IV. The Homeric Apocrypha V. The Iliad and the Odyssey VI. Hesiod VII. Archilochus of Paros VIII. Alcman of Sardis IX. Mimnermus of Colophon X. Semonides of Amorgos XI. Alcaeus of Mytilene XII. Sappho of Eressus XIII. Theognis of Megara XIV. Solon of Athens XV. Stesichorus of Himera XVI. Ibycus of Rhegion XVII. Anacreon of Teos XVIII. Hipponax of Ephesus XIX. Simonides of Cos XX. Corinna of Tanagra XXI. Pindar of Thebes XXII. Bacchylides of Cos XXIII. Callimachus of Cyrene XXIV. Apollonius of Rhodes XXV. Theocritus of Syracuse Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
When Michael Schmidt's last book,Lives of the Poets,was published, Mark Strand called it "a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read." Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and élan toTheFirst Poets-the story of the ancient Greeks whose work continues to influence poetry in our own time. Poetry takes its bearings from the brilliant constellation of early and classical Greek poets, who have long been overshadowed by the great Greek dramatists. InThe First Poets,Schmidt rescues the lives of these poets from their relative obscurity. Here is Orpheus, the first of the first poets, healer, mystic, and magical fixer; and Homer, about whom almost nothing is known for certain except the magnificence of his two great epic poems. Here are Linos and Arion, who survive only in legend; and Amphion, who survives through the tales we ascribe to him. Here are Sappho, the greatest Greek woman writer, and Hesiod; Hipponax, the "dirty old man of poetry"; and Theocritus, the father of the pastoral; and many others. Combining the verifiable facts of their lives and the narratives provided by later writers, Schmidt walks the fine line between fact and scholarly conjecture to create vivid, animated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.
LC Classification Number
PA3064.S36 2005
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